Lisa Albrecht, School of Social Work, (612)624.3669 Co-Founder Freire Center: A Popular Education Center for Democratic Social Change. Feminist anti-racist organizing, feminist alliance politics, Israeli-Palestinian women's peace work. Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray!: Feminist Visions for a Just Peace, ed. with Jacqui Alexander, Sharon Day and Mab Segrest (Edgework Books, 2002).  |   PROFILE

Rose Brewer Afro-American & African Studies, 612.624.9847  |  612.624.9305 African diaspora, theorizing gender, race & class, black feminist theory, public policy, pedagogy. Engendering the “Race”: A Sociology of African Americans (Sage, 1998). “Gender, Race, and Social Policy: African Americans and the U.S. Welfare State,” Women’s International Policy Forum (1998). “Knowledge Construction and Racist Science,” Behavioral Scientist (39:1, 1995).  |  PROFILE

Susan Craddock Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies/Global Studies, (612) 625-5535 Director of Graduate Studies Health and medicine, gender, race, and social equity. "Nationbuilding: Gender, Race, and Medical Discourse," Journal of Historical Geography (27:4, 2001). City of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco (U of Minnesota Press, 2000);   |  PROFILE

Jigna Desai, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, (612) 624-0363 Postcolonial theory, transnational and diasporic studies, Asian American studies, cinema and literature, South Asian diaspora, sexuality. “Bombay Boys and Girls: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Transnationality in the New Indian Cinema in English” South Asian Popular Culture (April 2003). Homo on the Range: Mobile and Global Sexualities (Social Text, 2002).   |  PROFILE

Ruth-Ellen B. Joeres German, Scandinavian and Dutch, (612) 625-9034 Women’s history, 18th-20th century German literature, feminist theory. Respectability and Deviance: Nineteenth-Century German Women Writers and the Ambiguity of Representation (U Chicago, 1998). “The Paradox of a Feminist Academic Journal,” Yale Journal of Criticism (10:2, 1997).   |  PROFILE

Amy Kaminsky Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies/Global Studies, (612) 624-7319 Contemporary Latin American literature, feminist literary theory, theories of gender, representation, and nation. After Exile: Writing the Latin American Diaspora (U. Minnesota, 1999). Waterlilies/Flores del Agua: Anthology of Spanish Women Writers (U. Minnesota, 1995). Reading the Body Politic: Latin American Women Writers and Feminist Criticism (U. Minnesota, 1993).   |  PROFILE

Ellen Messer-Davidow, English Language and Literature, (612) 625-2071 Higher education system, social movements, public policy, and theory. Disciplining Feminism: From Social Activism to Academic Discourse (Duke UP, 2002). “Rosenberger v. Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia: From Discourse and Dollars to Domination,” South Atlantic Quarterly (98:1March 2002).   |  PROFILE

Richa Nagar, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, (612) 625-2028 Transnational feminist praxis, social geographies of “development,” violence and resistance. “Footloose researchers, ‘traveling’ theories and the politics of transnational feminist praxis,” Gender Place and Culture (9:2, 2002). “Locating Globalization: Feminist (re)readings of subjects and spaces of globalization,” Economic Geography with V. Lawson, L. McDowell and S. Hanson (2002).   |  PROFILE

Paula Rabinowitz, English Language & Literature/American Studies, (612) 625-2063 Materialist feminism, film and narrative theory, 20th-century American culture, working class literature, visual culture. Black & White & Noir: America’s Pulp Modernism (Columbia UP, 2002). “Great Lady Painters, Inc.: Icons of Feminism, Modernism and the Nation,” Modernism, Inc.: Body, Memory, Capital (New York UP, 2001).   |  PROFILE

Naomi Scheman, Philosophy / Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, (612) 626-8190 Knowledge, power and privilege; theories of sex, gender, sexuality and race. “Epistemology Resuscitated: Objectivity as Trustworthiness,” (En)Gendering Rationalities (SUNY Press, 2001). “Terminal Moraine,” Jewish Locations in Racialized Formations: Traversing a Strange Landscape (Rowman and Littlefield, 2001).   |  PROFILE

Edén Torres, Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies/Chicano Studies, (612) 625-5035 Chicana culture, history, literature, studies in race, class, gender, & ethnicity. "The Myth of Machismo: Mexican American Women, Intra-ethnic Sexism, and Racist Assumptions," Mujeres Unidas! Proceedings of the Southern California Chicana Feminists Conf. (UCLA, 1991). "Journeys of Our Lives - Eden Torres," National Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Association Journal (2:1, 1990).   |  PROFILE

Jacquelyn N. Zita, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, (612) 624-9326 Feminist theory & philosophy, corporeal theory, epistemology, sexuality/ gender studies, biological sciences/environmental studies. Body Talk: Philosophical Reflections on Sex and Gender (Columbia UP, 1998). Ed. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Special Issue on Third Wave Feminisms (Summer, 1997)   |  PROFILE

The following faculty are available to serve on graduate committees:

Walter O. Bockting, Program in Human Sexuality, University of Minnesota Medical School, (612) 625-1500

Transgender identity, sexuality and the Internet, the prevention of HIV and other sexually-transmitted diseases, sexual health. Ed. Gender Dysphoria: Interdisciplinary approaches in clinical management (Haworth Press, 1992), Transgender and HIV: Risks, prevention, and care (Haworth Press, 2001), Masturbation as a means of achieving sexual health (Haworth Press, 2002), and The International Journal of Transgenderism.

Maria M. Brewer, French and Italian, (612) 624-1361

Narrative, French literature & theatre, postmodernism, cultural memory. Claude Simon: Narrativities Without Narrative (U. Nebraska, 1995). "Surviving Fictions: Gender and Difference in Postmodern and Postnuclear Narrative," Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture (9, 1987).

Karlyn Kohrs Campbell, Communication Studies, (612) 624-9003

Public discourse of women and developing rhetorical theory suited to the public practices of women. “Three Tall Women: Radical Challenges to Research, Practice and Pedagogy,” Endowed Arnold Lecture, National Communication Association (Allyn and Bacon, 2002). “Rhetorical Feminism,” Symposium on Current Scholarship in Communication Studies, Rhetoric Review (20, Spring 2001). “Modern Rhetoric” and “Feminist Rhetoric,” Encyclopedia of Rhetoric (Oxford UP, 2001).

Sarah Chambers, History, (612) 624-8547

Colonial Latin American & Women's History. From Subjects to Citizens: Honor, Gender and Politics in Arequipa, Peru, 1780-1854 (Penn State Press, 1999). "'To the company of a man like my husband; no law can compel me': Women's Strategies against Domestic Violence in Arequipa, Peru, 1780-1850," Journal of Women's History 11:1 (Spring 1999).

Anna Clark, History, (612) 624-8015

Gender & politics in Britain 1760-1820, working-class history. The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class (U of California Press, 1995). Women's Silence, Men's Violence: Sexual Assualt in England, 1770-1845 (Pandora, 1987).

Maria Damon, English Language and Literature, (612) 625-1536

Cultural studies approaches to poetry and poetics, “eccentric” texts by women and other minoritized people, anthropological approaches to literature. "Revelations of Companionate Love, or, the Hurts of Women: Janine Pommy Vega’s ‘Poems to Fernando,’” Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation (Rutgers UP, 2002). “Writing, Social Science and Ethnicity in Gertrude Stein and Certain Others,” Modernism, Inc.: Body, Memory, Capital (NYU Press, 2001)

Mary Dietz, Political Science, (612) 624-0597

Contemporary social and political theory, feminist theory and gender as a political concept, democratic theory, history of Western political thought. “Current Controversies in Feminist Theory,” Annual Review of Political Science (forthcoming). Turning Operations: Feminism, Arendt and Politics (Routledge Press, 2002).

Lisa Disch, Political Science, (612) 626-7825

Feminist political theory, citizenship, democracy, theories of gender. The Tyranny of the Two-Party System (Columbia, 2002).

Raymond Duvall, Political Science, (612) 624-8576

Director, International Center for Global Change and Institute for Global Studies Power and morality in global governance, globalization, governing corruption, global constitution of authority and the late-capitalist state. "The International Relations of Democracy, Liberalism and War: Directions for Future Research," with J. Weldes, Democracy, Liberalism & War: Rethinking the Democratic Peace Debate (Lynne Rienner, 2001). Cultures of Insecurity: States, Communities, and the Production of Danger ed. with J. Weldes, M. Laffey and H. Gusterson (U. Minnesota Press, 1999).

JoAnne Eicher, Design, Housing, and Apparel, (612) 624-7710

Dress and textiles as non-verbal communications with area focus in Africa and Asia. The Visible Self: Global Perspectives on Dress, Culture and Society, 2nd ed. (Fairchild Publishers, 2000). Beads and Beadmakers: Gender, Material Culture, and Meaning (Berg Publishers, 1998).

Sara Evans, History, (612) 624-9526

Women's history, U.S. 20th century feminism. Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century’s End, (Free Press, forthcoming March 2003).

Mary Louise Fellows, Law School, (612) 626-0264

Trusts and estates, federal tax law, & feminist jurisprudence. "The Race to Innocence: Confronting Hierarchical Relations Among Women," Gender, Race and Justice (1, 1998). Law and Violence Against Women: Cases and Materials on Systems of Oppression,with B. Balos (Carolina Academic Press, 1994).

Roderick Ferguson, American Studies, (612) 624-4190

Intersections of race, gender & sexuality; political economy, epistemology, and culture. Work in progress: "Literature and Civil Rights" for Civil Rights in the United States, ed. by Waldo E. Martin and Patricia Sullivan. "The Nightmares of the Heteronormative" in Cultural Values (October, 2000).

Susanna Ferlito, French and Italian, (612) 626-7868

Literary theory, 19-20th century Italian culture, women's immigration history."Affidamento/Entrustment," Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories (Routledge, 1999). "Fear of the Mother's Tongue: Secrecy & Gossip in Manzoni's Promessi Sposi," Modern Language Notes (113, 1998).

Shirley Nelson Garner, English Language and Literature, (612) 625-1826

Associate Dean Graduate School Shakespeare, feminist studies in literature, feminist/psychoanalytic literary criticism. Is Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice, ed. The Social Justice Group at the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies. (NYU Press 2000).Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender, ed. with Madelon Sprengnether (Indiana UP 1996).

Jane Gilgun, School of Social Work, (612) 624-3643

Gender and violence, the meaning of violence to perpetrators, and how persons overcome adversities. “Gender-Linked Status Changes Among Liberian Refugees in the United States,” with E. Dolo, Social Work Research and Evaluation (forthcoming). “Commentary on Denzin: The nature and usefulness of qualitative social work research,” with L. Abrams, Qualitative Social Work (1:1, 2002).

Kathleen Hull, Sociology, (612) 624-4339

Law, culture, gender and sexuality, social movements, inequality, family, qualitative methods. “The Cultural Power of Law and the Cultural Enactment of Legality: The Case of Same-Sex Marriage,” forthcoming in Law and Social Inquiry. "The Political Limits of the Rights Frame: The Case of Same-Sex Marriage in Hawaii," Sociological Perspectives (44:2 2001).

Indira Junghare, Institute of Linguistics - Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures, (612) 624-4118

South Asian women, religion, literature & language. A Poetry Pond, (Somaiya U. Pub., 1998). "Sanskritic Buddhism in Southeast Asia," Journal of the Institute of Asian Studies, Madras (XV:1, Sept. 1997).

Mary Jo Kane, Kinesiology, (612) 625-3870

Director of Tucker Center for Research on Girls and Women in Sport Sociological aspects of women in sport, media and female athletes. "Fictional Denials of Female Empowerment: a Feminist Analysis of Young Adult Sports Fiction," Sociology of Sport Journal (15, 1998). "Media Coverage of the Post Title-IX Female Athlete: A Feminist Analysis of Sport, Gender & Power," Duke Journal of Gender Law & Public Policy (3, 1996).

Ruth Karras, History, (612) 625-8578

Sexuality/gender in medieval Europe, masculinity, marriage and power. “Young Knights Under the Feminine Gaze,” The Premodern Teenager: Youth in Society (Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, U. Toronto, 2002). “Sexuality in the Middle Ages,” The Medieval World (Routledge, 2001).

Sally J. Kenney, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, 612.625.3409

Director, Center for Women and Public Policy Women & law, feminist social movements, pregnancy discrimination. Politics and Feminist Standpoint Theories, with H. Kinsella (Hayworth Press, 1997). For Whose Protection: Reproductive Hazards and Exclusionary Policies in the US and Britain (U. Michigan, 1992).

Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, The History of Science & Technology, 612.624.9368

Women, gender and science, popular science, science education. “Reimag(in)ing Women in Science: Crafting Self-Images and Negotiating Gender in Science,” Changing Images of the Sciences (Holland: Kluwer, scheduled for 2002). Women in Science: An Isis Reader (U. Chicago, 1999).

Mary Lay Schuster, Rhetoric, (612) 624-2262

Reproductive technologies, midwifery, health, feminist theory, rhetoric. The Rhetoric of Midwifery: Gender, Knowledge, and Power (Rutgers UP, 2000). Body Talk: Rhetoric, Technology, Reproduction, ed. with L. Gurak, C. Gravon and c. Myntti (Madison: U. Wisconsin Press, 2000).

Amy Lee, General College, (612) 625-0884

Composition theory & pedagogy, feminist approaches to writing. "Embodied Processes: Composing Power and the Personal Narrative," Going Public: Student Writing as Public Text, ed. Emily Isaacs and Phoebe Jackson (Boynton/Cook, 2001). Composing Critical Pedagogies: Teaching Writing as Revision (Urbana: NCTE, 2000).

Josephine Lee, English Language and Literature, (612) 625-9510

Drama, theater, and performance, Asian American studies. "'Speaking a Language that We Both Understand': Reconciling Feminism and Cultural Nationalism in Asian American Theater," Performing America: Cultural Nationalism in American Theatre, eds. J. E. Gainor, J. D. Mason (U. Michigan, 1998).Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage (Temple UP, 1997).

Helga Leitner, Geography, (612) 625-9010

Urban and regional development, international labor migration, and Europe. Over 60 articles published in such journals as Ecumene, Political Geography, Environment and Planning, Urban Geography, and Progress in Human Geography.

Elaine Tyler May, American Studies, (612) 626-7847

US history, intersection of politics, culture, private life, gender, sexuality. Barren in the Promised Land: Childless Americans and the Pursuit of Happiness (Harvard UP, 1997). Pushing the Limits: American Women, 1940-1961 (Oxford UP, 1994). Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era (Basic Books, 1988).

Mary Jo Maynes, History, (612) 624-9330

Germany & France, education, women's history, autobiography, childhood. Taking the Hard Road: Lifecourse and Class Identity in French and German Workers' Autobiographies of the Industrial Era (U. North Carolina, 1995). German Women in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, A Social and Literary History, ed. with R.E. Joeres (Indiana UP, 1986).

Richard McCormick, German, Scandinavian and Dutch, (612) 625-8549

20th century German film & literature, feminism & feminist film theory. Gender and German Cinema, ed. with S. Frieden, et al. (Berg Pub., 1993). Politics of the Self : Feminism and the Postmodern in West German Literature and Film (Princeton UP, 1991).

Valerie Miner, English, Language and Literature, (612) 625-0183

Creative writing, working class fiction, lesbian fiction, post colonial fiction, Indian subcontinent fiction, Western American fiction, feminist fiction and other literature. The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir (Michigan State UP, 2001). Range of Light (Zoland Press, 1998).

Lisa Norling, History, (612) 624-4501

American women's & early American social history, maritime history. "New England Whalemen's Wives and the Sentimentalization of Seafaring, 1820-1870," America and the Sea, eds. B. Labaree et al. (Mystic Seaport Museum, 1998). Iron Men, Wooden Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-1920, ed. with M. S. Creighton (Johns Hopkins UP, 1996).

Joanna O’Connell, Spanish and Portuguese, (612) 625-0110

Chair, Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies Latin American literature & culture, colonialism, nationalism, Caribbean writing. Prospero's Daughter: The Prose of Rosario Castellanos (U. Texas, 1995). Co-ed. Special Issue of Signs, Postcolonial, Emergent, and Indigenous Feminisms (20:4, Summer 1995).

Jennifer Pierce, American Studies, (612) 624-9882

Contemporary labor studies in the global economy, race, gender, feminist theory, ethnographic research methods. “’Racing for Innocence’: Whiteness, Corporate Culture, and the Backlash Against Affirmative Action,” Qualitative Sociology (Fall 2002). “Is Academic Feminism Dead?” Theory in Practice (New York UP 2000).

Riv-Ellen Prell, American Studies, (612) 624-0017

Anthropology, Jewish studies, religion & ritual, ethnicity, gender & class. "American Jewish Women Living in Two Worlds," Sh'ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility (28:546, 1998). "Cinderellas Who (Almost) Never Become Princesses: Representations of Jewish Women in Post War Novels," Talking Back: Representations of Jewish Women in America, ed. J. Antler (U. New England, 1997).

Gloria Goodwin Raheja, Anthropology, (612) 625-8547

Social/cultural anthropology, caste & gender in India, colonialism, memory. Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender & Kinship in North India, with A. G. Gold (U. California, 1994). The Poison in the Gift: Ritual, Presentation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village (U. Chicago, 1988).

Edward Schiappa, Communication Studies, (612) 624-2808

Popular culture criticism, argumentation, and contemporary rhetorical theory. Defining Reality: Definitions and the Politics of Meaning. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2003). “Analyzing Argumentative Discourse from a Rhetorical Perspective: Defining ‘Person’ and ‘Human Life’ in Constitutional Disputes Over Abortion,” Argumentatin (v. 14, 2000).

Amy Sheldon, Communication Studies, (612) 624-2504

Communication & gender, discourse analysis, social interaction. Mother Journeys: Feminists Write about Mothering, ed. with M. T. Reddy, M. Roth (Spinsters Ink, 1994). "'Kings are Royaler than Queens:' Language & Socialization," Young Children (42:2, 1990).

Eileen Sivert, French and Italian, (612) 624-0368

Narrative theory, feminist criticism, Canadian experimental prose. "Jovette Machessault and Marie-Claire Blais: Hybrids, Monsters and Ways of Knowing," International Journal of Canadian Studies / Revue internationale d'Ètudes Canadiennes (10, 1995). "Lèlia & Feminism" Yale French Studies (62, 1981).

Karen-Sue Taussig, Anthropology, (612) 625-3366

Anthropology of science, technology, medicine, the body, health, kinship, work, ideology, controlling processes, gender, sexuality, construction of time and space, modernity & the "West". "Geneaological Dis-Ease: Where Hereditary Abnormality, Biomedical Explanation & Family Responsibility Meet" co-author, in Relative Matters: The New Anthropology of Kinship (Duke UP, forthcoming). "Calvinism and Chromosomes: Religion, the Geographical Imaginary, and Medical Genetics in the Netherlands" in Science as Culture (6,4 1997).

Gary Thomas, Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature, (612) 624-3527

Cultural musicology, comic theory, queer theory. Queering the Pitch: The New Gay and Lesbian Musicology, ed. with Philip Brett and Elizabeth Wood (Routledge, 1994). "Constantin Christian Dedekind, 'Die Aelbianische Musen-Lust'" (1657), Historical- Critical Edition (Peter Lang, 1990).

Karen Brown Thompson, MacArthur Program, (612) 624-0255

International relations, women's & children's rights, comparative & Chinese politics. "Women's Rights are Human Rights: Institutionalizing Global Norms about Women's Rights," Restructuring World Politics, S. Khagram, J. V. Riker, K. Sikkink, eds., (U. Minnesota, forthcoming). "Gendered Theory and Practice: Democracy and Women's Empowerment," Feminism as Transformative Social Science: Surfacing Gender in Global Processes, with Elisabeth Friedman, Karen Booth et al, eds. (MacArthur Consortium on International Peace and Cooperation Working Paper Series, January 1997).

Karen Till, Geography, (612) 625-0079

Mary Douglas Vavrus, Communication Studies, (612) 624-5515

Communication Studies Media studies, feminist theory, cultural studies, critical theory. "Postfeminist News: Political Women in Media Culture", (SUNY Press, 2002).

Billie Wahlstrom, Rhetoric, (612) 624-7750

Mass media, communication & women. Perspectives on Human Communication (William C. Brown,1992). Women's Visions/Visions of Women: Brain Research And Its Implications For The Mass Media (1982).

Ann Waltner, History, (612) 624-2800

Gender in traditional China; Chinese history, world history. "Writing Her Way Out of Trouble: Li Yuying in History and Fiction," Writing Women in Late Imperial China, eds. E. Widmer, Kang-i Sun Chang, (Stanford, 1997). "Lingering Fragrance: The Poetry of Tu Yaose and Shen Tiansun" Journal of Women's History (1997). Gender, Kinship & Power, with M. J. Maynes (Routledge, 1996).

Barbara Welke, History, (612) 624-7017

19th & 20th century US legal, constitutional, women's history. Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law & the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920 (Cambridge UP, 2001).

Monika Zagar, German, Scandinavian and Dutch, (612) 624-4876

Norwegian literature, modernism, Scandinavian women writers. "Taming of the Shrew - Knut Hamsun's play Queen Tamara" Razgledi (Fall 1998). "Getting Rid of Mother: Solstad's Early Short Stories" Razgledi (Sept. 1998). "Knut Hamsun and the Black Man;" Razgledi (Dec. 1997).